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AWFULLY POLITICAL

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Unapologetic commentary from the left edge. Fighting disinfo, defending democracy, and torching right-wing BS. No filters. No apologies. Tired of the nonsense? Pull up a chair.

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 2d

This isn’t about geography. It’s about power — who holds it, who hoards it, and who’s trying to weaponize nostalgia to get it back. The North doesn’t need restoring. It needs reckoning.

Decoding the Restore the North Tour:

Symbolism, Strategy, and Stakes

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 2d

This isn’t about geography. It’s about power — who holds it, who hoards it, and who’s trying to weaponize nostalgia to get it back. The North doesn’t need restoring. It needs reckoning.

Decoding the Restore the North Tour:

Symbolism, Strategy, and Stakes

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

christ almighty what is this guy doing

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 9d

Dive deep into the shocking world of "The Epstein Playbook: Power, Protection, and the Performance of Justice."
We're dissecting the mechanisms that enabled Jeffrey Epstein's decades of abuse—from high-level connections to the systemic failures that shielded him.

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The Epstein Playbook: Power, Protection, and the Performance of Justice

A forensic breakdown of the Epstein network — from elite immunity and institutional complicity to the media’s role in shaping what the public is allowed to remember.

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 14d

QATAR has been linked to Trump family business deals — from luxury golf resorts to a $400 million Boeing jet offer. The same Qatar that cozied up to Jared Kushner during his White House tenure, while Kushner’s firm later received a $2 billion investment from the Saudis. Coincidence? Or a pattern?

AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 14d

Not a base, they say. Just a compound. Just a few jets. Just a few pilots. But let’s ask the obvious: Why is a foreign government funding infrastructure inside an American military installation?

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

The law is clear.
Only under the narrow conditions of Article 110 — piracy, the slave trade, unauthorized broadcasting, statelessness, or fraudulent flag — may a warship board a foreign vessel without consent. None of these apply to Conscience.

AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

If this were happening to Canadians in Beijing or Tehran, would we still be ‘monitoring’? Or would we be calling ambassadors, issuing travel advisories, and demanding accountability at the UN?

The real question isn’t what the government should do—it’s why it’s doing so little

AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

Start with the bare minimum: stop hiding behind euphemisms like ‘monitoring.’ That’s PR-speak for inaction. When citizens are unlawfully detained by a foreign military, a democratic government doesn’t monitor—it demands. It condemns. It intervenes diplomatically, publicly, and unapologetically.

AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

And all the while, the same Prime Minister who lectures the world about a rules-based order cannot seem to find his own spine when the rules are broken against his own people.

AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

We are told that consular services are being “offered.”
That’s bureaucratese for a welfare call.

It’s the language of paperwork — not principle.

AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

Canadians are told our government is “monitoring the situation.”

Monitoring?

That’s what you do with a storm, not with citizens unlawfully detained by an army that acts with impunity.

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

Premier Hogan at least remembered what leadership looks like — showing up for his people. Ottawa, meanwhile, seems to be waiting for a poll to tell them how much outrage is politically safe.

AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 15d

Mark Carney can talk all he wants about “rules-based order,” but silence when Canadians are unlawfully detained is not diplomacy — it’s dereliction. You don’t “calibrate” when your citizens are sitting in a jail cell in a country accused of war crimes. You speak. You demand. You act.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17d

I continue to just respect the hell out of this guy

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 18d

A classroom should not be a battlefield. Education is not infiltration. Teachers are not groomers.

CRT is not indoctrination.
Gender studies is not subversion.
And philosophy is not dangerous.

This is how authoritarianism creeps in.
Not with tanks.
With terminology.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 19d

When state agents mock the pain of children, we are no longer debating immigration policy—we are witnessing the collapse of moral order.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 20d

They are 🐑 every single one of them.

The Netflix Boycott That Proves Wokeness Isn’t the Problem — Ignorance Is

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 21d

This was not on the 2025 bingo card 😒

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22d

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

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CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

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AWFULLY POLITICAL @www.awfullypolitical.com · 21d

THIS! 💯

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Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin.bsky.social · 22d

We all know at least one asshole who didn’t vote for either presidential candidate. What do you think the real reason was for them? Not necessarily the reason they gave you, but the real reason.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22d

Meiselas: So if this 17 trillion he keeps talking about exists, what account is it in? Did he steal the 17 trillion?

Subramanyam: I’d love to see his math on that. I’d love to know why it’s not being returned to the American people if that’s the case.

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Zach Wahls @zachwahls.bsky.social · 21d

Unity Point hospital has spent millions on union busting consultants rather than providing nurses with fair wages and safe working conditions. It's wrong and it's bad for patients.

I'm proud to stand with these nurses and Teamsters Local 90 as they fight for what's fair.

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